High School category, Page 812
Highlands playmaker Brock White on road to recovery from knee injury
Brock White might have to wait a few games to start his 2021 football season. The standout rising senior running back and linebacker at Highlands is in the recovery process after surgery earlier this month to repair an MCL tear suffered at a seven-on-seven event in late May at Valley...
Field set for Tre Cunningham memorial basketball tournament
The field is set for the inaugural Tre Cunningham Memorial Basketball Tournament to be played Friday and Saturday at the Jeannette High School gymnasium. Eight high school boys teams will compete in a double-elimination bracket. The event is sponsored by the Jeannette Educational Foundation. Funds will go toward a scholarship...
Penn-Trafford lineman pops up on recruiting radar
Declan Ochendowski knew he wanted to play college football, but it wasn’t that long ago that the incoming senior at Penn-Trafford doubted he would draw attention from Division I programs. The size was there. Penn-Trafford will have one of the largest lines in the WPIAL this fall (more on that...
Yough comes up short in Legion Region 7 tournament
SIDMAN – Yough reached the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament for the second consecutive season. And while the run to the semifinals was fun, the results were the same as 2020: Yough came up short. Errors and walks cost Yough a trip to the championship as it dropped a...
Excitement builds for return of PONY League World Series
In another indication that pre-pandemic normalcy is making its return, directors of PONY League baseball unveiled plans Tuesday for the organization’s 69th World Series. The eight-team double-elimination tournament is set for Aug. 13-18 at Lew Hays PONY Field in Washington, Pa., next door to Washington Wild Things Park. The series...
Fifth field added for Freeport International Baseball Invitational, which expects 20 teams
Excitement continues to build for next week’s Freeport International Baseball Invitational, with 20 teams, five area fields and close to 60 games scheduled over five days. “For 27 years, we’ve been saying that there is no pressure to win a game for a trophy,” Freeport International president Chuck Sarver said....
Southmoreland to honor late alumnus with football helmet sticker
Remembered as a teammate who could lighten the mood when football created tense moments like it can, Brandon Peterson left quite an impression on the Southmoreland football team. He is missed more every day. The team will honor their fallen friend by wearing his number 15 on the back of...
Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Cade Yacamelli, Penn-Trafford
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized Thursday during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. For more than two years, Cade Yacamelli ate like there was no tomorrow. Three heavy...
WPIAL adds board of directors seat exclusively for private schools
Private schools in the WPIAL soon will have their own seat on the board. As the WPIAL entered a new school year, the board voted Monday to add a 20th seat earmarked exclusively for private schools. Those schools were left without a representative when longtime WPIAL board member Bill Cleary...
Yough reaches semis; Latrobe, Young Township eliminated
SIDMAN – Yough put itself in good position by winning its first two games of the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament. And even though Yough dropped a 5-2 decision to Phillipsburg-Osceola on Monday at Forest Hills High School, it finds itself in Tuesday’s semifinals against Beech Creek at 2:30...
Jeannette basketball coach Adrian Batts adds athletic director duties
A familiar face was hired Monday night as the new athletic director at Jeannette. Adrian Batts, a boys basketball coach in the district for 16 years — 13 as the head coach — will take over AD duties immediately. He replaces Ryan Hayden, who resigned from the part-time position after...
Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Deontae Williams, Woodland Hills
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized Thursday during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Deontae Williams is known for making the big play on the football field. One of...
WPIAL football championships will return to Heinz Field this fall — maybe over 2 days
The WPIAL football championships are returning to Heinz Field this fall, maybe for a two-day affair Thanksgiving weekend at the North Shore stadium. The football finals were held at high school venues last season because of the pandemic, but the WPIAL board voted Monday to take four or five of...
Westmoreland high school notebook: Waldier on his way back again
Tristan Waldier is back on the field for the Yough football team, medically cleared after season-ending knee injuries two years in a row. Waldier, who returned to action at the WCCA 7-on-7 tournament last week at Latrobe, tore the ACL in his right knee in Week 4 last season. That...
Latrobe, Yough pick up wins at the American Legion Region 7 tournament
It’s win or go home Monday for Latrobe and Young Township at the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament. The Jethawks bounced back from a tough loss to Claysburg on Saturday by defeating District 31 rival Young Township, 8-2, at Central Cambria. Latrobe will face Beech Creek, which defeated Claysburg,...
State champion wrestler, City League great Godwin Nyama Cutler dies at 27
Former state wrestling champion Godwin Nyama Cutler, an all-time City League great who won the league its first PIAA title less than a decade ago, has died. He was 27. Nyama Cutler went 132-19 in four seasons at Brashear in a standout high school career highlighted by a 120-pound state...
Trib HSSN Preseason WPIAL Football All-Star team: Devin Whitlock, Belle Vernon
The Tribune-Review and the TribLive High School Sports Network are profiling each member of the 25-player Trib HSSN Preseason Football All-Star team. The players will be recognized Thursday during HSSN Media Day at Kennywood Park. Devin Whitlock plays football in cursive. Whether he is taking a handoff and speed-bursting up...
Norwin alum Metzger expects smooth transition as new coach of girls soccer team
When she begins her new job, Diane Metzger said she will not have to focus on fixing something that isn’t broken. That is for sure. The new Norwin girls soccer coach, who is an alum and former goal-scorer for the Knights, knows what kind of program she is about to...
Westmoreland notebook: Southmoreland duo could become IUP teammates
IUP has an eye on two Southmoreland basketball standouts. The Crimson Hawks landed one and hope to get the other. Rising senior forward Gracie Spadaro gave IUP a verbal commitment Saturday, only days after receiving an offer. Junior point guard Olivia Cernuto, meantime, might mull over her offer a little...
Penn Hills girls soccer eager to get to work in offseason
Seventh-year Penn Hills girls soccer coach Ashley DeVito is always up for an opportunity to keep her team engaged in the offseason. Once the mask restrictions were eased earlier this summer, DeVito was contacted by the Deer Lakes girls soccer coach and invited to participate in a tournament. The Indians...
Penn-Trafford Junior Legion team captures Westmoreland league title
The Penn-Trafford area baseball community continues to find success. Bolstered by players choosing to compete for the community teams, rather than all-star travel programs, the area squads are tearing up summer leagues. Penn-Trafford has formed its only travel teams at the younger levels that compete and regularly beat the travel...
Behun, Loudermilk to lead Quaker Valley girls soccer as co-head coaches
Former Quaker Valley girls soccer coach Jamie Birmingham knew he was going to step down at the end of last season, so he approached assistants Maggie Behun and Rachel Loudermilk and asked them if they wanted to step up into the role. It didn’t take long for the pair to...
Baldwin grad Alina Stahl looks forward to senior season at WVU
Alina Stahl has been an accomplished student-athlete since her freshman year at Baldwin. She maintained that status throughout high school and now through three years of competition on the West Virginia women’s soccer team. Stahl, 21, has been a prized recruit for the Mountaineers, both in the classroom and on...
Carlynton hires new girls volleyball, basketball coaches
While the summer months are down time from actual events going on, coaches and athletes are working hard behind the scenes to prepare for the upcoming season. That preparation is amped up a bit when new coaches are involved. Such is the case at Carlynton after athletic director Nate Milsom...
Pritts, Wilkins led Yough to victory in Region 7 Legion tournament
Kam Pritts hit a two-run double in the sixth inning, Nate Wilkins tossed a three-hit shutout and Yough defeated host St. Michael, 2-0, on Saturday in the Pennsylvania American Legion Region 7 tournament at Forest Hills High School in Sidman. Yough will face Bedford at 3 p.m. Sunday during Day...
